Selected Resources for Dr. McWhorter's WittSem:
Society and the Human Embryo
Fall 2011
Books | Indexes | Periodicals | Web Sites | HelpBOOKS
LC subject headings | Library Catalogs | Reference BooksLibrary of Congress Subject Headings.
31st ed., 5 vols., 2009.Kept on the long table by the main bank of EZRA/Web terminals.
Locating Books in Library Catalogs
At Wittenberg: EZRAAt other Ohio academic Libraries: OhioLINK
In North America For ILL: WorldCat
Reference Books
Below is a select list of reference books that may be helpful to you in this course.- The New Encyclopedia Britannica (32 volumes)
- Reference AE 5 .E363 2002
- The Encyclopedia Britannica is one of the most famous reference books on the planet. While you don't want to base your entire paper on it, it is a good starting point.
- McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of Science & Technology (20 volumes)
- Reference Q121 .M3 1997 (8th edition)
- This encyclopedia gives a good overview of a topic in a few pages. Probably a good starting point for many topics
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online
- AccessScience@McGraw-Hill: The Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
- Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia (3 volumes)
- Reference Q121 .V3 2008
- Van Nostrand's is another good general science encyclopedia.
- A Dictionary of Chemistry
- Reference QD5 .D4985 2004
- Also available online
- A Dictionary of Biology
- Reference QH302.5 .D54 2008
- 2004 edition available online
- Encyclopedic Dictionary of Genetics, Genomics, and Proteomics
- Reference QH427 .R43 2003
- Good reference for genetics terms.
INDEXES
- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Complete is a multi-subject database containing both scholarly and popular publications. Some material is available in full-text. It will be s a good starting place for all the papers for this course.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Contains the fulltext of many national and international newspapers since 1980. Click on the link and then click on the news tab near the top left of the screen.
- Wilson Index
- The Wilson Index is made up of the Humanities, Sciences and Social Science indexes. It is a good place to find scholarly articles on a variety of topics.
A full list of all of the indexes available at Wittenberg can be found at:
http://www6.wittenberg.edu/lib/research/browse-db.php
PERIODICALS
Periodicals are where most of the information for your research papers will come. Remember that there are scholarly publications as well as popular publications. As you progress in your college career, you will move from using popular resources to relying more and more on scholarly sources. For hints on how to tell the two apart, please see Scholarly vs. Popular Articles.
Wittenberg owns many scientific journals in both print and electronic formats. The links below will help you to find out what journals we own, the format, and where they are located.
Journals the Library Has
This is a searchable index of the periodicals Wittenberg owns in electronic and print formats. Location and dates owned are also provided.
If you need an article from a journal that is not owned by Wittenberg, you may request a copy of it from another library using Interlibrary Loan.
WEB SITES
When using the internet, always be thinking critically about what you are viewing. Good and bad information both reside on the internet and it isn't always easy to tell the two apart. For hints on spotting good web pages, please see the library's page on Evaluating Web Sites.
- New York Times
- Covers the New York Times from 1981 to present.
- USA Today
- CNN
If you choose to use internet sites as information resources, you must cite them just as you must cite a book or journal article. For help citing webpages and other online resources, take a look at Citing Electronic Resources.
HELP
If you are having trouble with your research, please contact: Alisa Mizikar, Science Librarian, amizikar@wittenberg.edu or x7515 or the Reference Desk, refdesk@wittenberg.edu, x7511
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Compiled by Alisa Mizikar.
